AAA exam
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- deKlerk
- White South African president after Mandela, in 1989, boldly accepted the need for reform. He abandoned apartheid, repealed the hated pass laws, and lifted the ban on the ANC. A year later, he freed Mandela.
- Zimbabwe
- United Nations Sanctions hurt their economy; White white Southern Rhodesians refused to give power
- Nigeria
- 250_____ ethnic groups (Muslim North vs. Christian South = violence); Constitution, but Muslim Hausa dominated
- Falkands
- Peron tried to seize this place from Britain; hide African problems by doing toher things
- Angola and Mozambique
- Portuguese dictator Antonia Salazar rejects demands for freedom, and then they get freedom in 1975; and then civil war for long time
- Namibia
- getting its independence from South Africa
- Nyerere
- Tanzanian man who embraced socialism
- "Papa Doc"
- Dr. Francois Ducalier who ruled in Haiti with his son "Baby Doc" with a secret police
- Organization of African Unity
- prevent conflict for Africa
- Peron
- dictator in Argentina
- Algeria
- French felt it was a part of thier country; struggle from 1954 to 1962 for independance
- Mobutu
- seized power in Congo and imposed so mutual me kind of order. He renamed the nation Zaire, meaning "big river." Dictatorship that slaughtered rivals
- Romero
- a conservative member of El Salvador's elite until he became( he was a catholic priest) archbishop; he began to condemn government death squads that were killing peasants and students opposed to the government; martyred while saying mass- had him executed by a death squad because he did liberation theology- help through God and to be treated fairly
- Eva Peron
- famous for being loved by people in Argentina; did a lot to help the people
- Mau Mau
- group of Guerrillas trying to end depression in Kenya; gain independence from Britain, Kenyatta will get in trouble because of their violence, he wanted to be peaceful
- SWAPO
- South West African Peoples Organization-had turned to armed struggle to win independence. For years, SWAPO guerrillas battled South African troops.
- Sandanistas
- In Nicaragua; they were gorilla fighters and wanted to get rid of old dictator and put in Daniel Ortega
- ANC
- African National Congress- wanted to end Apartheid in South Africa
- Mugabe
- Rob and Josh go together, both in Zimbabwe, both fought to change over Zimbabwe (other name) and wanted to give black majority power; josh
- GUtemala
- government murdered and tortured critis, mainly Native Americans, economy damaged by deacade long civil war
- Kenyatta
- Leaders of nonviolent independence, imprisoned (Mau Mau were violent); 1st prime minister of Kenya (1963); first president of Kenya
- Mandela
- First South Africa President voted by all races
- South Africa
- Apartheid and who's involved with it; foreign boycotts hurt the economy;
- Nkom
- Rob and Josh go together, both in Zimbabwe, both fought to change over Zimbabwe (other name) and wanted to give black majority power; rob
- Elsalvador
- Us tried to pressure governemnt to change, only one major export which was coffee, 12 year long civil war
- Nkumrah
- imprisoned; then1st PM of Independent Ghana
- National Liberation Front
- in Algeria; trying to liberate them from French